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Activity 2: Key question for investigation
What was the country like when the traditional Aboriginal people lived there?
What was the country like when the traditional Aboriginal people lived there?
Read "Historical Context: Living as Australia's Earliest Inhabitants" and answer the following questions in your book
"Creeks and other water resources were foci for Aboriginal occupation..."
- Foci means that these places were the heart or centre of where Aboriginal people would live.
Key Question:
What was the country like when the traditional Aboriginal people lived there?
Answers the questions below:
- What were the 3 Aboriginal language groups that lived in the Badgery's Creek area?
- What were some of the foods available to the Aboriginal people before European settlement?
- What items did Aboriginal people make from the environment and what did they use from the environment?
- What disease had a serious effect on the local population?
- What were Aboriginal people employed as by European settlers?